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Topics of the day:
1. new etext - Sinks of London, 1848
2. The Asylum and Mental Illness (2)
3. 2nd CFP: VICTORIAN TRANSFORMATIONS
4. TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for October
5. Reference Book
6. Victorian poetry texts (2)
7. Poetry anthologies (2)
8. Asylums
9. The Asylum and Madness
10. Poetry anthologies, contd.
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 07:08:59 +0100
From: Paul Lewis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: new etext - Sinks of London, 1848
Indeed - the book contains a very full acknowledgment which includes a list
of names taking up almost half a page, many from this list, as well as a
specific thanks to Patrick and the Victoria list in general.
Paul
Paul Lewis
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Subject: Re: new etext - Sinks of London, 1848
In a message dated 30/09/2002 07:26:23 GMT Daylight Time,
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> And the 'sugar' cry has resonances with the new book by Michel Faber _The
> Crimson Petal and the White_ whose main character is called Sugar.
Talking of which, in today's (London) Evening Standard, Mr Faber pays
tribute to the many scholars across the world who hav e assisted him with
his research into this novel - no doubt this list has provided a
goodly number of contributors.
Joh n Tufail
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:06:19 +0100
From: Chris Willis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: The Asylum and Mental Illness
Hi!
And of course there's Braddon - especially *Lady Audley's Secret* and the
asylum scenes in *The Trail of the Serpent*. It's worth comparing
Braddon's treatment of mental illness in these early novels with the much
more sympathetic treatment in her later ones, especially *Strangers and
Pilgrims* which was written after her own breakdown.
All the best
Chris
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Chris Willis - London Metropolitan University
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"Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not
spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius
of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:33:27 +0200
From: neil davie <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: The Asylum and Mental Illness
Hello Jenn,
In addition to the books already mentioned by list members, you might =
find useful the following collection of primary sources:
Jenny Bourne Taylor & Sally Shuttleworth, eds., "Embodied Selves: An =
Anthology of Psychological Texts 1830-1890", Oxford University Press, =
1998.=20
It is especially valuable for placing approaches to mental illness in =
the wider context of developments in Victorian psychology.
Good luck with your research!
Neil Davie
Universit=E9 Paris 7, Paris, France.
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:15:51 -0500
From: ANNE WINDHOLZ <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 2nd CFP: VICTORIAN TRANSFORMATIONS
The MIDWEST VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION invites 500-word proposals on t=
he theme of VICTORIAN TRANSFORMATIONS for its 27th annual conference to b=
e held at the Seneca Hotel in Chicago on April 11 and 12, 2003. Possible=
topics include transformations, conversions, metamorphoses, refashioning=
s, shifts, and alterations whether personal, political, literary, or arti=
stic; Victorian adaptations and influences; transformations that affected=
Victorians' world view--or our view of the Victorians; transforming deve=
lopments in science, medicine, or psychology; sea changes in social ideol=
ogies; reversals and advances.
In keeping with the spirit and nature of MVSA, interdisciplinary topics a=
re encouraged, as are submissions from historians, art historians, musico=
logists, and all who do research in the field of Victorian Studies.
Please direct inquiries and abstracts (no more than one typed page, pleas=
e, and no e-mail attachments) to:
Dr. Anne M. Windholz
MVSA Executive Secretary
P.O. Box 571
DeKalb, IL 60115
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Deadline for receipt of proposals: FRIDAY, NOV. 1, 2002.
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Note: please include an e-mail address with your submission, since most =
correspondence will be handled electronically. Thanks!
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:20:27 -0500
From: Bill Morgan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for October
Earlier this morning, I posted Hardy's "Embarcation" and
"Departure, " two of his poems on the Boer War, as the TTHA Poem(s) of the
Month for October 2002.
This month's discussion is the seventh in a series dedicated to Hardy's
sonnets. I invite your contributions to a month-long on-line conversation
about two of Hardy's sonnets from a sequence called "War Poems" and
offering his critique of the war effort.
You can find the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion by following the
links from the main TTHA page at
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm
or by going directly to
http://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS
Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month site,
you will encounter a program called WebBoard, which will give you the
opportunity to read the poems as well as any comments they may have generated,
compose a response, preview your response, edit it further if you wish, and
then post it by using the button labeled Post the Message. If you are
composing an intricate or long response, you may want to prepare your
message in a word processing program, then copy it to your clipboard before
pasting it into the message area of WebBoard. And if you prefer, feel free
to send me your contribution as an e-mail, and I will post it for you:
[log in to unmask]
Besides this month's discussion, the other conversations about
Hardy's sonnets available at the site are April ("Hap"), May ("At a Lunar
Eclipse"), June ("She, to Him, I-IV"), July ("Her Reproach" and "Her
Confession"), August ("To an Actress" and "To an Impersonator of Rosalind"
and September ("In the Old Theatre, Fiesole," "Rome: On the Palatine," and
"Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter").
The discussions of Hardy's memorial and holiday poems from August 2001
("The Last Signal"), September ("Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius" and
"Shelley's Skylark"), October ("At a House in Hampstead" and "At Lulworth
Cove a Century Back"), November ("To Shakespeare: After Three Hundred
Years"), December ("Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden" and "George
Meredith"), January 2002 ("A New Year's Eve in War Time"), February ("The
Oxen"), March ("A Drizzling Easter Morning") are also posted at the site
and open for contributions until sometime later in the year when they will
be published in *The Hardy Review*.
I expect soon to have reconstructed the earlier discussions of poems
with
female narrators ("The Dark-Eyed Gentleman," "She At His Funeral," "Her
Confession," "Tess's Lament," "The Pine-Planters," "The Pink Frock," "The
Beauty," "I Rose and Went to Rou'tor Town," "An Upbraiding," "The
Chapel-Organist," "A Sunday-Morning Tragedy," and "A Trampwoman's Tragedy")
and when I have completed the work on them I will post them as well. All
of the older discussions will remain posted at the site until such time as
they are edited and published in either *The Hardy Review* or in one of
TTHA's Occasional Papers.
The discussions for February, 1998 through November 1999 have been
"closed" and their contents edited and published in *The Hardy Review* [I:1
(July 1998) and 2:1 (Summer 1999)]. Likewise, the conversations from 1999
about the "Emma" poems have been published as the second of the TTHA
Occasional Series. And those concerning "Channel Firing," "Satires of
Circumstance in 15 Glimpses," "After the Visit," "To Meet, or Otherwise,"
and "A Singer Asleep" have been published in *The Hardy Review*, III
(Summer 2000). The discussions of "Nature's Questioning," "The Mother
Mourns," "The Subalterns," "The Lacking Sense," "In a Wood," "To Outer
Nature," "June Leaves and Autumn," "Wagtail and Baby," "On a Midsummer
Eve," "Afterwards," "Shut Out That Moon," "The Last Chrysanthemum," "The
Year's Awakening," and "The Night of the Dance" have been edited and
published in *The Hardy Review*, IV (Summer 2001). All of these
publications are available free or at a discounted price to TTHA
members and may be ordered by others using an on-line form available at the
main TTHA page (see the URL above).
Welcome to the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion for October 2002.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:59:06 -0400
From: Anne Gomez Huff <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Reference Book
I'm looking for a comprehensive encylopaediaesque/dictionary tome of
sorts (ala Oxford Classical Dictionary) of Victorian letters/writers.
Any
recommendations?
A.F. Gomez Huff
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:20:07 -0600
From: Jan Widmayer <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Victorian poetry texts
I've been asked to teach our undergraduate course in Victorian poetry for the
first time, and am having trouble tracking down a text (or two). I've been
teaching versions of Victorian literature that include prose, so I'm not
familiar with what is available in poetry only--and am surprised that a couple
of titles that appear to be in print are ones I used as a graduate student
several ages ago. What am I missing? What do you some of you use in similar
poetry courses?
Many thanks.
Jan Widmayer
Boise State University
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:37:48 +0100
From: Valerie Gorman <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Victorian poetry texts
Jan Widmayer wrote: "What do you some of you use in similar poetry courses?"
I would strongly recommend the New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse edited by
Christopher Ricks. If you go to http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0192840843.html
you can order an examination copy. I find this an excellent text for
teaching Victorian verse.
Valerie Gorman
Oxford Tutorial College
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:56:34 -0500
From: Kristine Garrigan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Poetry anthologies
It's true that until a very few years ago one's only choice seemed to be the
sadly dated Houghton and Stange (containing, for example, no women poets).
David Latane recently did an excellent review essay on new Victorian
anthologies, and I found it useful in selecting one for the grad course in
Victorian poetry that I'm currently giving. (I chose the full-sized Broadview
Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory, and am reasonably happy with
it, except for odd exclusions such as 'St. Simeon Stylites' and 'One Word
More.' They also have an abridged version that might be better for undergrads.)
I can't locate my printout of David's article at the moment--I'm sure it was in
Victorian Poetry. Maybe he'll be kind enough to post the publication info--it's
certainly well worth reading both in terms of the assessments of the
anthologies and for a sense of the state of Victorian poetry scholarship
today.
Kris Garrigan
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:40:34 -0500
From: Natalie Schroeder <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Asylums
You might also look at Charles Reade's Hard Cash (lots of asylum scenes)
and Collins's Jezebel's Daughter (there is a (a couple?) scene of Bedlam at
the beginning.
Natalie Schroeder
University of Mississippi
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:16:38 +0100
From: Andrew Mangham <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: The Asylum and Madness
I would add Wilkie Collins's _Jezebel's Daughter_ and _Armadale_ plus
Charles Reade's _Hard Cash_, which deal with issues related to the running
of asylums, etc. A good souce of non-fiction stuff is Jenny Bourne Taylor
and Sally Shuttleworth (eds) _Embodied Selves_ (OUP, 1998), which has a
whole section on moral management and care of madness.
Good luck with it,
Andrew Mangham
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:41:34 -0400
From: David Latane <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Poetry anthologies
Many thanks to Kristine Garrigan for the kind words about my review
essay (Victorian Poetry, 38.2 (2000): 331-39). I looked at a batch of
books that had just come out; excluded were the several separate
anthologies of Victorian poetry by women, which had been out for a
while. (Since then Virginia Blain's anthology has also appeared.) The
books were:
The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory, ed.
Thomas J. Collins and Vivienne J. Rundle. Peterborough, Ontario:
Broadview Press, 1999. 1461pp. $35.95 (pbk); Concise edition of same,
2000. 692 pp. $ (pbk). The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry and
Poetics, ed. Valentine Cunningham. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. 1108 pp.
$39.95(pbk), $74.95(hb). The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse, ed.
Daniel Karlin. London: Penguin, 1997. 851pp. $17.95(pbk); Victorian
Prose: An Anthology, ed. Rosemary J. Mundhenk and LuAnn McCracken
Fletcher. New York: Columbia UP, 1999. 469pp. $22.50(pbk, $49.00(hb).
and in press, British Literature 1830-1890, ed. Dorothy Mermin and
Herbert Tucker, from Harbrace.
I've used the Broadview and the Mermin and Tucker; my colleague who also
teaches Victorian poetry has gone back one last time to Houghton and
Stange, supplemented by Virginia Blain's anthology--in part for
polemical purposes. (H&S's aesthetic judgements are so clearly put, in a
way that we post-structuralism introducers rarely dare.)
David Latane
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 18:00:24 -0500
From: Kristine Garrigan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Poetry anthologies, contd.
Re Broadview omissions: "St. Simeon Stylites" is in fact in the larger
edition--my mistake. The problem even with so hefty and varied an anthology as
this, though, is predictable: inevitably, some of one's personal "must teach"
works are missing. D. G. Rossetti's sonnets, for instance, number only 14, and
don't include "Astarte Syriaca" and "Mary's Girlhood," which are especially
interesting to teach because of the linked paintings. I've still ended up
handing out assorted Xeroxes.
Kris Garrigan
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